Chapter 3 - On the recognition of the learned whom (if) one recognizes him, one recognizes Allah, and (if) one denies him, one denies Allah ta`ala, and the cause by which his (His?) recognition is accorded

Chapter 5 - Mankind becomes three: a learned person, a learner, and scum, and the Imams from the Family of Muhammad صلوات الله عليهم are the learned ones, their Shi`a are the learners, and the rest of mankind are scum

Chapter 6 - Mankind has not been commanded to seek knowledge but from its source, and its source is the Family of Muhammad عليهم السلام

Part Six

Chapter 14 - With the Imams are the roots (usool) of knowledge of what they inherited of it from the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله). They do not say by their view (i.e. opinion)

Chapter 15- With the Imams is all of what is in the Book and the Sunna, and they do not say by their view and their Shi`a have not been permitted that

Part Ten

Chapter 22 - Regarding one who does not recognize the hadith so he rejects it

Some selected narrations from chapters in al-Kafi from the Book of Virtue of Knowledge

Chapter 1 - The imperative of knowledge and the obligatoriness of seeking it and urging it

Chapter 2 - The attribute of knowledge and its virtue, and the virtue of the learned